Gallery X

The New Bedford Harbor Sea Chantey Chorus and Butler Flats Chantey and Chowdah Society will sing sea-music at Gallery X on Thursday, June 5 from 6:30 to 8:30PM. During this free event the groups will sing songs reflecting the far-reaching voyages, history, and resilience of the historic Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey. Gallery X presents the concert as part of Ship Shape II, its exhibit of maritime-themed art featuring works using material connected with the SSV Ernestina-Morrissey, now in its “fifth life” in the fleet of Mass Maritime Academy and homeported in New Bedford. Enjoy songs about waters the Schooner has sailed and cultures and trades spanning its one-hundred-thirty-one-year history. From Greenland and the eastern Arctic, the Maritime Provinces, New England, Great Lakes, the Caribbean, and Bering Sea to Cabo Verde and back, the Ernestina-Morrissey has, “done more than she oughta,” in the words of Tom Goux, director of the Chorus founded as a volunteer activity of the Schooner. The Chorus has performed widely in the region, at the Mystic Sea Music Festival, New Bedford Folk Festival, Roots and Branches Festival, and in Newfoundland. Its CD, Lovely Ernestina, is available from Whaling City Sound. Butler Flats are five members of the Chorus who […]